Money talks. Everyone going out and pre-ordering PS4 after MS's blatantly anti-end user, "we only care about money" reveal has caused this. If people showed similar behavior and stopped flocking to buy annual released games, publishers would also have to put more work into solid new IP and actually release finished products. Big win for the gaming community right here...

Unfortunately for them though, the damage is done. I know slews of online friends who are abandoning Xbox altogether just out of feeling scorned

They must be some real pain in the asses in real life then. Holding grudges is for petty, sad individuals. I would hate to be friends with them. "Remember when you stepped on my toe 12 years ago? You're a *** *** and I still hate you for that!"

I'm still a little gun-shy, but still lean more towards MS exclusives than Sony's. That being said, is anyone aware of whether they still require the games to be downloaded to the HDD. I know the disc will still need to be in the drive, but I haven't heard about the other.

Sadly this kind of hurts those who were already set on the Xbox One because although there is no more extra DRM Policies and no more 24 hour connection there is also no more ability to take games everywhere with you without a disk. I personally would have liked to seen Microsoft stick to there plan and at least let it pan out to me I don't like the fact that a company can fold on their stance so quickly. Plus the damage is already done most people who bolted to the PS4 are going to be very reluctant to come back.

If people hadn't done that I bet MS would not have changed anything. They didn't do the right thing because they care about gamers, they did it because they saw the writing on the walls about what was going to happen to their fanbase and bottom line.

That is why I will never preorder a system. I may not be "cool" by not having the new system when they first come out, but that is fine with me when I do not have a pricy dust collector sitting on my shelf because it is not what I thought it was going to be when I read what it might do.

Sorry but the X Box One will never cross my door step. That comes from someone who has been video gaming since the days of the Vectrex System. Microsoft is not a user friendly company, they folded on the DRM because they knew they would get hosed on sales for Christmas. That being said the re implementation for their whole plan is only an update away. I work in IT and I really don't trust Microsoft any longer. There are real security concerns with this box as well. Most people won't even know they have now become a Nealson family without getting paid for it. The box will track what you watch, purchase and play. Facial recognition is just freakin creepy on a video game system, and a camera that is always on.. It's down right Orwellian. Notice the careful wording MS used about the DRM feature. They have turned off the need for a "constant" internet connection, but how much do you want to bet it still will phone home from time to time, and send all that data to someone.

Sorry I guess I'll stick with my PS3 gen 1 backward compatible btw, I'm going to take a serious look at the PS4 at some point next year. I'm keeping my X Box 360 arcade system My Sega Dreamcast and Genesis, Nintendo Game Cube and WII, Atari Jaguar, 2600, 5200 and Lynx and yes I still have the Vectrex.